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R. ROBINSON. APPARATUS FOR TRANSFERRING UARS.

No. 377,117 Patented Jan. 31, 1888.

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APPARATUS FOR TRANSPERRING CARS.

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ROWLEY ROBINSON, OF \VYMORE, NEBRASKA.

APPARATUS FOR TRANSFERRING CARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 377,117, dated January31, 1888.

Application filed August, 24, 1887 To (.LZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROWLEY ROBINSON, of \Vyniore, in the county of Gage,State of Nebraska, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement inApparatus for Transferring Oars, ofwhich the following is a descrip tionsufficiently full, clear, and exact to enable any person skilled in theart orscienee to which said invention appertains to make and use thesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthis specification, in which- Figurel is a top plan View; Fig. 2, a sideelevation of the device, with the pit in longitudinal section; and Fig.3, a vertical trans verse section taken on line so a: in Fig. 2.

Like letters of reference indicate corre sponding parts in the differentfigures of the drawings.

My invention relates more especially to that class of apparatus fortransferring cars which has a carriage mounted on wheels and providedwith transverselyarranged sets of rails adapted to register with therails of the main track; and it consists in a novel construction andarrangement of parts, as hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed,the object being to produce a simpler and more effective device of thischaracter than is now in ordinary use.

The nature and operation of the improvement will be readily understoodby all conversant with such matters from the following explanation.

In the drawings, A represents the carriage, B the engine, 0 C the cars,and D the main track of the railway.

The carriage A consists of a frame-work mounted on a series of trucks,2, which run on double tracks 3 disposed on the bottom of a pit, J,extending transversely across the main track D.

Arranged transversely on the carriage A are sets of short traclcrails E,adapted to register with the main track D as the carriage is moved backand forth to shift the cars. Five sets of these rails are shown in thedrawings; but any number desired may be used. The pit J is formed atright angles to the road-bed, and the carriage A is of such height thatthe rails E E stand on the same plane with the rails of the main trackD, the railsy y being arranged longitudinally in the bottom of said pit.

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The length of the pit J is determined by the number of rails E requiredor by the length of the carriage A, said carriage being of such dimensions as to enable it to be moved longi tudinally a suflicientdistance to bring either set of its tracks E opposite the main track D.

The engine 13 is mounted on a platform, G, at one end of the carriageA,and is provided with two pitman-rods, m m, by which it drives adouble-crank shaft, R, journaled transversely on the frame-work of saidcarriage. An ordinary fly-wheel, d, is mounted on one end of the shaftIt, and on the opposite end of said shaft is disposed a pinion, 7c,whichintermeshes with a gear, K, (see Fig. 2,) disposed on a counter-shaft,g, which is journaled horizontally below the shaft R and in parallelismtherewith. A sprocketwheel, P, is centrally disposed on the shaft 9, itsteeth engaging the links of a horizontallyarrangedjack-chain,M, which isdisposed in the pitJ, the ends of said chain being fastened to the endwalls of said pit.

The main track D is provided at either side of the pit J with anordinary switch, L, by means of which the rails of said track may bemade to register with the rails E on the carriage A, thus obviating thenecessity of stop ping said carriage in the exact position necessary tocause the tracks to register.

In the use of my improvement the carriage A can be moved by means of theengineB and jaclechain M, so that any set of tracks E desired willregister with the main track D. It is designed that there shall beenough sets of tracks E on the carriage to receive all the cars of anordinary train, one car being disposed on each set of tracks. By movingthe carriage A back and forth by means of the engine B, as described,the cars 0 may be shifted onto the main track D and the train made up inany order desired; or any required number of cars may be removed fromthetrain andleft on the carriage.

Having thus explained my invention, what I claim is- 1. In a device ofthe character described,the combination ofthe followinginstrumentalities, to wit: a pit formed at right angles to the maintrack, longitudinally arranged tracks within said pit, a carriagemounted on trucks adapted to run on said tracks, sets oftransversely-arranged rails .mounted on said carriage and adapted toregister with the maintrack rails, a jack-chaindisposed 1ongitudinallyin said pit and secured at or near the ends thereof, an engine disposedon said carriage, a crankshaft journaled on said carriage and providedwith a pinion and fiy-wheel, acounter-shaft journaled on said carriageand provided with a sprocket-wheel engaging said chain and a gearengaging said pinion, and a pitman rod or rods connecting the enginewith said crank-shaft, substantially as described.

2. In a device of the character described, the carriage A, provided withthe rails E, trucks 2, the engine B, mounted on said carriage, thecrank-shaft R, provided with a fly-Wheel and pinion, 7c, thecounter-shaft 9 provided with the sprocket-wheel P and gear K, the tracky and. chain M, disposed in the pit J, the pitman-rods m, connecting theengine with said crank-shaft, and the main track D, all constructed,combined, and arranged to operate substantially as described.

4. In a device of the character described, the

main track D, provided with a switch, L, at either side of the carriageA, to enable said main track to be so adjusted as to register with thetracks E on said carriage when the carriage is not stopped in positionto cause the tracks to register, substantially as described.

RoWLEY ROBINSON,

Witnesses:

E;, N. KAUFFMAN, J. L. DORWARD.

